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Australian
Caroline Chisholm
Sarah Goldman
HB $39.99
Arriving in Australia in 1838, Caroline
Chisholm was appalled by the plight
of young female immigrants. In
response, Chisholm started the first
employment office in the colony,
established minimum wages, found
homes, and she managed to do all
this without any assistance from the
government of the time. She utterly
transformed life in Australia. A long
overdue, contemporary and lively
reassessment of an important
Australian historical figure.
Songlines and Fault Lines
Glenn Morrison
PB $27.99
Visitors to the Red Centre come
looking for the real Australia, but find
a place both beautiful and disturbing.
There is wilderness, desire and an
Aboriginal philosophy of home. But
there is also the confusing
countenance of the Australian
frontier, a meeting place between
black and white, ancient and modern.
Songlines and Fault Lines explores the
Red Centre through the eyes of those
who have walked it, in six remarkable
stories that have shaped our nation.
Australian Gypsies Their Secret
History
Mandy Sayer
Harbour
Scott Bevan
PB $34.99
Since the arrival of the First Fleet there
have been Gypsies in Australia, yet their
experiences have never been included
in any official histories. In Australian
Gypsies, award-winning memoirist and
novelist Mandy Sayer weaves together
a vivid, wide-ranging history that
begins with the roots of the Romani
culture, tracing the first Gypsy people
to arrive in Australia (including James
Squire, the colony’s first brewer)
through to Gypsy families today. HB $49.99
Everyone knows Sydney Harbour. At
least, we think we do. In this beautiful,
authoritative and meditative journey,
Scott Bevan takes us from cove to
cove, by kayak, yacht and barge to
gather the harbour’s stories, past and
present, from boat builders, ship
captains and fishermen to artists,
divers, historians and
environmentalists, from signs of
ancient life to the submarine invasion
by the Japanese. This is the ultimate
story of Sydney Harbour.
The Catch: The Story of Fishing in
Australia
Anna Clark Pompey Elliott at War: In His Own
Words
Ross McMullin
PB $39.99
In every coastal town in Australia,
there’s a bait shop and a boat ramp,
and, in garages around the country,
fishing rods wait for their next outing.
Bringing her personal passion, author
Anna Clark celebrates the enduring
pleasure of fishing. This book charts
the history of fishing, from the first
accounts of Indigenous fishing and
early European encounters to the
latest fishing fads; from trout and fly
fishing to balancing needs of
commercial and recreational fishers. HB $59.99
The wartime letters and diaries of
Pompey Elliott are exceptionally
forthright. His letters to his young
children turned even the Western
Front into a bedtime story. Pompey
was prominent in iconic battles and
numerous controversies. No Australian
general was more revered by those he
led or more famous outside his own
command. This book will lead to a new
appreciation of Pompey’s character
and his importance in the dramatic
final year of World War I.